The dynamic duo: Robyn and Lynne from Pickled Sisters Pantry in Penguin

We are two sisters, with me being the oldest. I moved to Tasmania from Victoria three years ago. My sister Robyn has been living in Tassie for around 30 years or more and she has been a business-woman in Burnie for most of that time. Robyn along with her husband owned Bells Bargains in Upper Burnie for nearly 20 years.

My history has been in hospitality so we decided to open a gourmet cafe-deli in Burnie which we operated for two years and during that time we did win an award for the best new business. We sold the business last October and we were lucky enough to maintain our name. We wanted to follow my dream of producing a range of cottage jams and relishes etc.

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Who likes a little marmalade on their toast? Made by Pickled Sisters Pantry

What we want to achieve is for the Pickled Sisters Pantry products to be sold locally. They are local in nearly every aspect as we not only grow quite a lot of the ingredients, we get all our berries locally. We would like to show folks that you are never too old to follow a dream (we are both retiring age) and we are happy to share some wonderful recipes. I am the chef and do all the cooking and Robyn does the labelling design, books and is the general “dogs body”.

Tell you what, if Lynne wasn’t totally committed to the Pickled Sisters Pantry, we’d have her signed up to write articles for Think Tasmania. What a fantastic letter! She’s outlined perfectly what she wants from us, and also what her family business is all about. Life around here would be so simple if we could just publish Lynne’s letter and say: job done!

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Everyone’s favourite relish and chutney from the Pickled Sisters Pantry

However, we’ve made a commitment to our readers to publish only information from first-hand knowledge. Enter Michelle Kneipp Pegler, who happens to live in Gunns Plains… not far from Penguin. She has such an obliging, community-minded spirit, and she offered to visit the Pickled Sisters Pantry in person and see them in action.

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Tasmanian honey from the Pickled Sisters Pantry, north west coast

Pickled Sisters Right on the Money

As it turns out, Robyn and Lynne do have a commercial kitchen in Penguin and do chop and cook and bottle their own products… exactly as they say. The inspirational ladies were extremely busy preparing their delicious gourmet jams on the day of Michelle’s visit, but were happy to chat about their business. The ladies gave Michelle a lovely sample hamper of their goodies; and she’s given them her resounding seal of approval for taste, quality and presentation.

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Jams from the Pickled Sisters Pantry, made with local Tasmanian produce

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